🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

We're hiring📢📢📢 To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊

Starting a research site on an Indonesian island must be easy, right? Find out about field work challenges in TALES FROM THE JUNGLE 🐦🌴 linktr.ee/wild_behavior_pod @mohara.bsky.social @bmioduszewska.bsky.social @drracheldale.bsky.social #FieldWork #indonesia #academiclife #AnimalBehaviour

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳 Are you curious about 🧒 developmental, 🌍 cross-cultural 🦧 species comparative research on cooperative sustainability? All info here or dm me with questions! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job... Please share! 🙏

New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al. Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability 48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅 ✅ Stable individual traits ❌ No g-factor 🤝 Social ≠ non-social 🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

Happy to have a new piece in @science.org with my friend Lydia where we draw attention to the significance of animal material culture for understanding human technical evolution and why we should digitally preserve and protect primate tools and tool use sites. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of psychology focusing on self-awareness in nonhuman great apes drawing from different methods such as touch screens experiments, playback experiments, eye tracking, and behavioural experiments www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

🦍🖥️New paper on great apes in virtual environments: Chimpanzee Turning Behavior During Spatial Navigation in Virtual Environments (animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1390). Led by Sarah Koopman, we went back to basics and asked a simple question about object permanence and optical flow.

We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

🚨Paper alert 🚨 Need a social cognition task for measuring individual- and community-level variation? We are excited to share the TANGO-CC with you! 👀 Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2515... w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @patkanngiesser.bsky.social @kirstensutherland.bsky.social @elmanubohn.bsky.social...

Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Using mobile #eyetracking to study #dogs’ understanding of human referential communication. New study w/ Karoline Gerwisch, Paula Berg, Zsófia Virányi and Ludwig Huber royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... New paper w/ L.Huber, P.van der Wolf, M.Menkveld & S.Riemer providing evidence that dogs prefer to steal from a plate unseen by a human when the human's presence has to be inferred from sound cues.

New #PhDposition (cultural psychology) at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA: the project focuses on social cognition and will involve research in Germany (Leipzig), Namibia and Polynesia. Application deadline: March 1st, 2025 www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

NEW PODCAST! Woohoo 🥳 My side project with Megan Lambert is finally coming to fruition. If you're into animal behaviour and/or podcasts please give us a follow and subscribe 🎙️ #AVeryNotSeriousSciencePodcast #SciComm #animal #podcast

Advertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!

No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.

1/13 Goffins in the gym Goffin's cockatoos choose and transport lighter objects in a “weight training” that has helped us reveal their amazing decision-making skills. (paper) https://buff.ly/4hRMvyz by @celestineadelmant.bsky.social

Motivated by all these other animal-centric starter packs to fill in another niche: comparative cognition! go.bsky.app/5yu5SDr Let me know if you want to be added, or know someone who ought to be in the pack. Would be great to have representation from loads of species and places.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in Animal Cognition / Developmental Psychology, see below. Deadline approaching soon..

Happy to share our recent paper on chimpanzees’ evaluations of conspecifics’ skills rdcu.be/dUPCS Big Thanks to the team of Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary for their fantastic support!

Here we go - PhD position #2 Development of social cognition across cultures 🇰🇪🇹🇷🇩🇪 * Comparative longitudinal project * Focus on individual differences * Fully funded for 4 years (75% E13, teaching optional) @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social more info👇 www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

Here we go - PhD position #1 Development of language and pragmatics across cultures 🇰🇪🇹🇷🇩🇪 * Comparative longitudinal project * Focus on individual differences * Fully funded for 4 years (75% E13, teaching optional) @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social more info👇 www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

Join us! We are seeking applicants for a fully funded 3-y PhD project on dogs’ and infants' causal perception using #eyetracking and #pupillometry, based at Vetmeduni Vienna and in collaboration with @jfkominsky.bsky.social at CEU. Full info here: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/...

New paper is out! Led by Katarina Begus, we explored 16m olds reasoning. Infant's theta response discerned between predicted confounded & uncon events, suggesting that infants can strategically direct attention to events that are likely to reveal informative evidence. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢 Job alert: My department is advertising *two* permanent Lectureships in any area of psychology (including Origins of Mind) @ Univ of St Andrews, UK. Please circulate! #PsychSciSky #Psychology #AcademicSky #EHBEA @eslr.bsky.social Deadline: 06/09/24 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

Exciting new #PhDposition focusing on the cognitive foundations of cultural #evolution in #chimpanzees : www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

Call for collaboration📢 Do you have primate face images? We are starting a project exploring the form and function of 'babyness' in primate faces. Contact me if you can help! yurikawaguchi.weebly.com/baby-face-pr... Our relevant review is just published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New preprint: Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals — a showcase of the TANGO–CC We describe the TANGO-CC's design process and its psychometric properties in 17 communities 🇦🇷🇨🇳🇩🇪🇮🇳🇲🇽🇳🇦🇳🇿🇳🇬🇨🇬🇹🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇬🇿🇲 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Task: ccp-odc.eva.mpg.de/tango-cc/

I am very delighted for this one! here is our latest work with Dustin Eirdosh and Daniel Haun. I hope all the children around you enjoy it!! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

A new implementation of the 'goggles' paradigm: "Dogs do not use their own experience with novel barriers to infer others’ visual access." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... led by Lucrezia Lonardo and w/ Martina Putnik, Veronika Szewczak, and Ludwig Huber.

Functional fixedness in chimpanzees. New paper, led by Sonja Ebel. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #tooluse #primates #cognition #chimpanzees

For more details on how to participate, visit manyprimates.github.io/mp3/. Let’s advance open science together! 🐒#OpenScience #PrimateResearch

🚨 Exciting news! The ManyPrimates3 project is now open for data collection! In MP3, we will assess the ability of primates to make inferences by exclusion. Join us to explore primate cognition and promote large scale collaboration!

Counting crows? No... crows counting. Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations 🏺🧪 science.org/doi/10.1126/... The crows flexibly produced between one and four vocalizations for corresponding cues associated with numerical values.

I'm looking for a PhD student to work on cooperative problem-solving in young children. You would be supervised by me and @emmatecwyn.bsky.social as part of our wonderful developmental research group at York St John University jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Curious about whether chimpanzees enjoy watching baby videos📺🐒? Check out the latest paper on the motivational value of infant video clips for chimpanzees! This is one of the studies in my master thesis and finally we published it!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 Cultural Evolution Job Alert! The Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology is hiring a group leader. Develop an independent research agenda with budget and team over 6-8 years. 👇

Come work with us! @lirsamuni.bsky.social is looking for a PostDoc to join our group to ask questions on Pan sociality - big questions, unparalleled datasets- don’t miss this ! Ad below:

👁️Variation in gaze understanding across the life span: A process-level perspective👁️ Lead: Julia Prein We study basic social-cognitive skills across the lifespan ✅ reliable task suitable from 3 to 80 ✅ computational model to explain individual differences ✅ tests of model implications

Some chimpanzees climbed a hill to get a better look. An absolutely mind-blowing finding from Cathy Crockford and Roman Wittig, among others 😁 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Join us! New, fully funded PhD positions available in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA in Leipzig. www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

New paper with Christophe Heintz, in PNAS: "Great ape interaction: Ladyginian but not Gricean" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join our lovely team at York St John Psychology! Three positions open for applications: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

It's great to see a Psychology department hiring in Comparative Cognition. Bravo University of Alberta! www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...

Coming soon: the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, an open access reference work devoted to the study of the mind. @asifa_majid and I are co-editors in chief – articles will be posted starting in 2024. oecs.mit.edu

With more and more people arriving at the new place, let me add to your timeline Stephen Buranyi's captivating long read about the history of academic publishing from small society journals to today's exploitative, hyper-profitable industry. As relevant now as it was 6 years ago!